Completed - ESTONIAN - Drama - 82 minutes
Family Lies is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Valentin KUIK, Manfred VAINOKIVI Writer(s) : Valentin KUIK Cast : Tambet TUISK, Eva KOLDITS, Ülle KALJUSTE, Roman BASKIN Producer(s) : Marju LEPP (Filmivabrik)
The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos.
Country(ies) : ESTONIA